Chapter 118 Scornful Sincerity
After dressing up, Shen Yuning stood up and went directly to Quan Minghe's tent.
After entering and paying her respects, she walked over and sat down next to Quan Minghe.
Since she came in, Quan Minghe has never looked up at her, and his eyes have been fixed on the memorials on the table. This is very different from the Quan Minghe who gently comforted her last night.
Shen Yuning was somewhat confused.
Could it be that Yan Xin told him about something related to Ye Jinshu and she got jealous?
Shen Yuning asked softly, "Your Majesty, have you found out that the person who murdered me last night was Concubine Yan?"
Quan Minghe just said "hmm" lightly and didn't say much, and his expression didn't show whether he was happy or angry.
Shen Yuning felt a surge of grievance in her heart, and she immediately complained: "Didn't Your Majesty promise me last night that I would deal with the murderer?"
"Is it because Your Majesty found out that the murderer was your beloved Concubine Yan that you regretted it?"
Quan Minghe's eyes darkened instantly, like a deep pool.
He turned his head and looked at her expressionlessly, his voice a little colder: "Then tell me, why did Concubine Yan drug you? Besides you, who else was in the back mountain last night?"
Shen Yuning bit her lower lip, hesitated for a moment, and said frankly, "General Ye is here."
Quan Minghe obviously didn't expect her to admit it so bluntly, and his face darkened.
"Have I doted on you too much, to the point where you have lost all sense of propriety?"
There was a hint of suppressed anger in his tone.
After her birthday, Quan Minghe has been very indulgent towards her. Looking at her now, could it be that because his temper has improved, she has started to become more and more demanding?
You can even do something like having a secret meeting with a man outside your family?
Shen Yuning felt a bitterness in her heart, which was like a silk thread entangled in her heart and could not be shaken off.
Her voice was choked with sobs, but she tried to make herself sound more confident.
"It was just a coincidence that I met General Ye last night. I went to the back mountain with the intention of waiting for Your Majesty there."
She paused, then continued, "Besides, I am already your Majesty's person, and now I just treat General Ye as my cousin and a relative."
Quan Minghe seemed to have thought of something and asked, "Now? What about before?"
Shen Yuning's heart tightened and her eyes flickered subconsciously.
Wu Wu said, "What do you mean by the past? Since I have entered the palace and become your Majesty's, I should let go of the past. Why does your Majesty insist on the past?"
The more she spoke, the more aggrieved she felt. She mustered up the courage to look him in the face, with a hint of questioning in her tone.
"Your Majesty, do you suspect that there is something unspeakable going on between me and General Ye, or are you just trying to protect Concubine Yan?"
"Why don't you suspect that it was Concubine Yan who knew that I went to the back mountain and deliberately led General Ye there. Isn't she deliberately plotting to put me in an embarrassing situation and make you hate me?"
As she spoke, her voice began to sob: "Your Majesty does not trust me, but you always trust Concubine Yan, right?"
Because of her questioning, Quan Minghe's thoughts went back to the time before she came.
It is not difficult to find out that the person behind the scenes is Yan Xin. Even if Yan Xin was scheming, she did not do it cleanly, and she is not as smart as Liu Shihan. It is easy for people to catch her no matter what she does.
So early in the morning, Quan Minghe had Yan Xin brought to the bank account and placed the evidence in front of her.
Yan Xin was so frightened that she couldn't sleep at night yesterday. When she saw the evidence in front of her and His Majesty's cold expression, she burst into tears.
She knelt in front of Quan Minghe, her body trembling.
She sobbed and said, "Your Majesty, I...I am bewitched. You dote on Concubine Shen, and I am jealous."
"But she...but she did meet with a man outside your family behind your back."
As she spoke, she wiped her tears with a handkerchief.
She continued to cry, "My maid heard with her own ears that Concubine Shen took the initiative to meet General Ye, and the two were going to the back mountain to meet secretly. I thought to myself, Your Majesty really loves her, how could he be deceived by her like this, so... that's why I want to fulfill their love, so that Your Majesty can see her true face."
Yan Xin raised her head, her eyes blurred with tears.
"Your Majesty, you don't know that you held a welcoming banquet for General Ye that day. During the banquet, General Ye and Concubine Shen left together. The two of them spent a long time together in private before returning to the banquet."
She paused, as if she remembered something, and her voice became a little higher.
"And that time, Concubine Shen and General Ye met by the stream. With all these things, how could I not suspect that there was some secret affair between the two of them?"
Quan Minghe sat there with a cold face, and it was unclear whether he had taken Yan Xin's words to heart.
But his eyes were always on the document in his hand.
The contents of the document recorded in detail the past experiences of Ye Jinshu and Shen Yuning when they were in the Northwest.
The more he read, the tighter his fingers unconsciously tightened, until he finally clenched the document tightly.
The scenes that he had tried hard to ignore before now flooded into his mind.
The sachet that Shen Yuning had spent more than a month sewing by hand, as well as the birthday gift that Ye Jinshu had carefully prepared for Shen Yuning, seemed to be right in front of her.
Could it be... Could it be that the two of them were exchanging tokens of love right under my nose?
Seeing that His Majesty did not speak for a long time, Yan Xin thought that he had listened to what she said and began to doubt the relationship between Shen Yuning and Ye Jinshu.
I was secretly happy and felt that my words had worked.
She bit her lip, mustered up her courage, knelt down and took a few steps towards Quan Minghe, stretched out her hand and placed it on His Majesty's leg, with a hint of flattery and pleading.
"Your Majesty, I know I was wrong. What I did this time was just to test whether there was really a problem between General Ye and Concubine Shen."
"If there is no love between the two of them, even if they were poisoned, even if they committed suicide to prove their integrity, they would never do anything that would bring disgrace to the royal family. This is the only way to show their innocence."
Quan Minghe was originally immersed in his own thoughts, but when he heard the word "suicide", he came back to his senses.
His eyes suddenly became sharp and stared straight at Yan Xin.
He pinched her chin and lifted it up with force, saying in a cold and hard voice: "Commit suicide? Then I will give you medicine too. If you can survive it, I will spare you. How about that?"
Yan Xin was stunned, then she realized that she might have said something wrong, and she felt a little scared.
She hurriedly explained, "Your Majesty, I...I didn't mean that. I just..."
The medicine she gave Shen Yuning was extremely strong. If she didn't have sex with the man, her body would not be able to bear it and she would at least lose half her life.
Kwon Myung Hyuk's eyes were filled with disgust.
"Since you admit to murdering Concubine Shen, you will be sent back to the palace immediately and imprisoned in Ganquan Palace. Without my order, you are not allowed to step out of the palace."
Looking at this face in front of me that is so similar to Xixi, but doing such a sinister thing, it would be better to let her stay in Ganquan Palace forever and pretend that she has nothing to see.
"No, Your Majesty! I know I was wrong. Do you want to banish me to the cold palace?"
Yan Xin opened her eyes wide, unable to believe what she heard.
Quan Minghe had a stern expression, but he had his own thoughts in his mind.
If he didn't hand her over to Shen Yuning for disposal, firstly, when he saw the past between Shen Yuning and Ye Jinshu, he felt like a huge rock was blocking his heart, heavy and uncomfortable.
Shen Yuning relied on the fact that he would not punish her and would agree to any of her requests, so she acted more and more recklessly.
Secondly, Yan Xin was indeed still useful to him, but her mind was always thinking about love, and now out of jealousy, she did stupid and bad things.
Imprisoning Yan Xin indefinitely is already a severe punishment.
Quan Minghe withdrew his thoughts and fixed his gaze on Shen Yuning again.
With tears in her eyes and a sense of grievance, she asked him whether he trusted her.
But he didn't trust anyone and only recognized the real evidence in front of him and everything he had witnessed with his own eyes.
Apart from this, no matter what anyone says, it is difficult to shake his judgment.
He knew that Shen Yuning didn't dare to have anything to do with Ye Jinshu now.
But the document recorded their past and the affection they had in their youth, making Ye Jinshu's existence more uncomfortable for Quan Minghe than Feng Moheng.
What's more, is it because of the oppression of imperial power that Shen Yuning dared not do anything improper, or has she completely let go of Ye Jinshu in her heart?
After Ye Jinshu came to Beijing, did her heart waver?
Thinking of this, Quan Minghe felt a violent emotion in his heart, spreading uncontrollably.
His face became increasingly gloomy, and his heart was filled with annoyance and suspicion.
He looked at Shen Yuning, his voice calm but with a hint of coldness: "Are you dissatisfied with my punishment of Concubine Yan?"
Shen Yuning was stunned for a moment. Didn’t he promise her last night that he would let her deal with the murderer?
Moreover, he was very intimate with me last night, but today he seemed like a different person, cold and distant.
A man's heart is like a needle in the sea.
"Your Majesty, have you punished Concubine Yan? I'm afraid that after you return to the palace, Concubine Yan will plead with you for mercy, and you will soften your heart and release her immediately."
Shen Yuning took a deep breath, not wanting to appear too embarrassed in front of him.
She stood up and bowed: "I am being unreasonable. I shouldn't object to any decision of your majesty. I will take my leave now."
After she finished speaking, she turned around and walked out of the tent.
Quan Minghe watched her back disappear. For a moment, the suppressed emotions in his heart could no longer be controlled. He suddenly reached out and grabbed the teacup on the table and smashed it to the ground.
With a crisp "crack", the teacup shattered instantly, and porcelain pieces flew everywhere.
Li Ming, who was waiting with his head down, and the palace maids serving in the tent were all frightened at seeing this and quickly knelt down in unison.
The entire tent fell silent in an instant, leaving only the sound of everyone's nervous and suppressed breathing.
Quan Minghe seemed to finally understand the blockage and discomfort in his heart. He was jealous, but this realization made him even more unacceptable!
Because he seemed to realize that getting Shen Yuning was not enough, he actually wanted her heart as well.
The sincerity that he had previously sneered at...
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